Frequent cruise passengers will know the frustration of losing their plastic keycard, or leaving it in their cabin. Replacing it often involves a hassle, both for the customer and the crew member who has to sort out the problem.
So it’s no surprise that cruise companies are looking at different ways of giving customers access to their cabins, pay their bills and access their onboard offerings.
The answer they’ve come up with is wrist bands similar to those FitBit devices that wannabe healthy people wear.
Royal Caribbean already offers RFID-powered Wow Bands on some of its ships, and now Princess Cruises has what it calls an Ocean Medallion, which is a disc that can be worn as part of a wrist band or carried in several other ways.
It will initially be used on Alaskan cruises on the Regal Princess starting in November.
Sounds like a foolproof plan. Except, I suppose, for folks like me who are not used to wearing a watch.
